Gain Your Copy History Of The Choctaw, Chickasaw And Natchez Indians Depicted By H.B. Cushman Ready In Readable Copy

researched, and for the time includes a great deal of precise, culturally specific content that was gathered with respect for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez, It is a long read, one that you might shorten if you're able to pinpoint what you're looking for in the index,

While there is contemporary research done by members of their own community that now might overshadow some of these older worksit is important to continue to use these references.
Cushman did a good job of collecting information in an attempt to humanize these cultures in a time where they were persecuted, Again, this is not a perfect text by an means, But there is a lot of knowledge here waiting to be consumed by those interested, Not often one finds a work such as this written by an onsite witness to the history and culture of these tribes, This edition with fact checking made it more informative, H. B. Cushman, the son of missionaries working at Mayhew, a Choctaw Indian station in Mississippi, observed the Indians heartbreaking removal from Mississippi betweenand, Later in life he continued to be associated with them, when he lived in Texas just across the Red River from the Choctaws and Chickasaws,

In, in an attempt to criticize white exploitation of the Indians, Cushman embarked on writing his History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and

Natchez Indians from the Indians point of view.
He spent six years renewing contacts, visiting cemeteries, observing Indian councils, and studying Indian records in the original languages, Published in, his history is extremely valuable for his firsthand observations on the removal and later history of the Choctaws and Chickasaws as well as for its material on the Natchez Indians, about whom little is in print.
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